"mule litter" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1896, Alexander Armstrong, In a Mule Litter to the Tomb of Confucius, pages 2-3:",
          "text": "The traveller may ride a donkey, a mule, or a pony; or he may use a barrow, a cart, a sedan chair, a boat, or a shentzŭ... The shentzŭ belongs more particularly to the north, and might be best described as a large sedan chair having an arched roof, the floor of the chair roomy enough to let a person lie on it; but whereas the chair is carried on men's shoulders, the shafts of the shentzŭ rest on the backs of mules. Shentzŭ is the Chinese name for what we would call a mule litter. As this conveyance can go over almost any kind of road, I decided on it, and engaged two mules for the litter, and a donkey for the baggage: the three animals with the shentzŭ and a man cost 1300 cash per day when we travelled, and 700 cash per day when we rested from any cause.",
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        "A litter pulled or borne by one or more mules."
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          "word": "litter"
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      "hyponyms": [
        {
          "english": "borne stretcher",
          "word": "cacolet"
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        {
          "english": "pannier or sedan",
          "word": "mule chair"
        },
        {
          "english": "enclosed Middle Eastern & Indian form",
          "word": "takhtrawan"
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          "english": "stretcher pulled by a single animal",
          "word": "travois"
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          "word": "mule-litter"
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          "word": "mulelitter"
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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          "word": "騾轎"
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          "code": "cmn",
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          "word": "骡轿"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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          "word": "騾馱轎"
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          "code": "cmn",
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          "word": "骡驮轿"
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          "code": "cmn",
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          "word": "軕子"
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          "code": "la",
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          "word": "basterna"
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      "wikipedia": [
        "Battle of the Little Bighorn"
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      "word": "mule chair"
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          "ref": "1896, Alexander Armstrong, In a Mule Litter to the Tomb of Confucius, pages 2-3:",
          "text": "The traveller may ride a donkey, a mule, or a pony; or he may use a barrow, a cart, a sedan chair, a boat, or a shentzŭ... The shentzŭ belongs more particularly to the north, and might be best described as a large sedan chair having an arched roof, the floor of the chair roomy enough to let a person lie on it; but whereas the chair is carried on men's shoulders, the shafts of the shentzŭ rest on the backs of mules. Shentzŭ is the Chinese name for what we would call a mule litter. As this conveyance can go over almost any kind of road, I decided on it, and engaged two mules for the litter, and a donkey for the baggage: the three animals with the shentzŭ and a man cost 1300 cash per day when we travelled, and 700 cash per day when we rested from any cause.",
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        "Battle of the Little Bighorn"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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      "word": "騾轎"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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      "word": "骡轿"
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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      "word": "騾馱轎"
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      "word": "骡驮轿"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
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      "word": "軕子"
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  "word": "mule litter"
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